Political Quotes

“Madam President, today, the Senate will vote on Steve Dettelbach's nomination to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives--better known as ATF. As I said on the floor yesterday, after describing in horrifying detail the mass shooting in Highland Park on the Fourth of July, we need a confirmed ATF Director now more than ever. When a mass shooter tears apart a community like Highland Park, IL-- or Buffalo, NY--ATF agents are among the first to arrive on scene. In fact, in the hours following the attack in Highland Park, it was ATF agents who traced the firearm belonging to the confessed shooter. Their investigate work was described by local authorities in Lake County as ``phenomenal.'' I couldn't agree more. The least we can do to support these heroic agents is confirm a proven leader to head the ATF, which has gone 7 years without a Senate- confirmed Director. Our country and our communities deserve better. They deserve an ATF that is fully equipped to respond on our Nation's darkest days--and to enforce the laws on the books to prevent these tragedies in the first place. And Steve Dettelbach is exactly the right leader for this challenge. He is a career prosecutor with decades of experience fighting crime, religion-motivated violence, gun trafficking, and he is a proven consensus-builder with bipartisan support. The vote on Mr.…”